The Journey to successful learning

Organizing chaos in the 2.0 world

First steps should be baby steps

• Vision
• Systems and costs – soft and hard funding, teacher and student, available resources (what to pay for and what to get for free)
• Teachers
• Administrators
• Techies
• Addressing the nay sayers
• Your audience – marketing, in district, state wide, national,

Focus your dream and resources

• analyze
• customize – templates, in house curriculum or purchase it
• train
• rollout
• reevaluate

Connecting to the world

• The 5 star curriculum - points of a star---student to student, student to community, student to technology, student to teacher, student to community
• Who to hire
• The role of professional development
• Student “boot camps”
• Problem students

Building a path to success requires the use of dedicated teachers and professionals to help you reach each goal....

Never solve a problem from its original perspective

Dumb questions lead to smart answers - Aristotle

Identify problems

Fix solutions goals reached-short and long term goals attitude

Come back from future 1step at a time

6 universal questions

• What is it?
• Where does it happen?
• When does it happen?
• How does it happen?
• Why does it happen?
• Who causes it to happen?

Dumb questions

• Why have we always done it this way?
• Does anyone actually look at this problem?
• Why do I have to post my research as ideas?
• Why can't I just copy and paste?
• Why do I need to share my ideas with others?

Challenging assumptions turn obstacles into opportunities

• State problem
• Solution deadline
• Ideal solution
• Stay in future
• Record phases - research discussion
• Overcome barriers
• Solution- come back to now- first draft

What does everyone else not do?

• Most easily implemented ideas
• Best idea from family member
• Best idea from foreign company
• Best idea from friend
• Best idea from competitor
• Best idea by asking help

Not invented here contest

Is our research/product top quality?

Ideal staff

A. Promoters- counselors, kids (ambassadors), teachers, parents,

B. Designer – Curriculum Designers, Techies, Students, Administrators

C. Implementers – Teachers, Administrators

D. Evaluators- Teachers, Students, Parents, outside input

At the end of the process the following questions should be asked:

• What have we accomplished?
• Why is it important?
• What now?
• Who needs to do what?

Conducting Staff inservices

• Dots- get their attention
• Nature
• Negatives
• Overcoming negatives
• Desired results
• Process
• Materials needed
• Resources needed
• Training needed
• Set timeline/ presentation date/ to whom

• Issues
• Negatives
• Solutions
• Present day

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